Pembroke’s water is back up to standard
Friday 27th May 2011, 2:29PM BST.
The Beach House’s Richard Griffin and Sabine Haberland are hoping for a good summer after Pembroke’s water was found to be of the highest quality. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1140599)
PEMBROKE BAY has achieved the highest UK standard for bathing water quality this year – 12 months after failing the test.
The popular northern beach received ‘recommended’ status – along with Grandes Rocques, L’Eree, Portelet and Saints Bay – and was considered by the Marine Conservation Society to have excellent water quality last year.
But Cobo again failed to reach the European Union legal minimum standard.
It is the third time in four years that the west-coast beach – one of the island’s most popular – has failed to reach the basic standard of water quality.
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Once again Cobo has failed to come up to scratch, what on earth is going on at this once most popular family choice for a day on the beach.
One answer to polluted waters could possibly be rectified with some vigilence by Cobo coastal dwellers; we should all be looking after our beaches, they however are on the spot. On an early morning walk last month, we came across no end of detritus, waiting for the tide to take it away, the worst of which was an up ended plastic bag of, yes, you guessed it, dog turd.
We didn’t have a camera, but notified the right authority of this, and our other unpleasant discoveries. To date there has been no response.
It would appear that Cobo beach has become, due to its poor ongoing health record and subsequent abandonment by families, a magnet for all who wish to dump, deposit or just abandon their rubbish.
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That is because they are not pumping water in to the tip.
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Stiletto
I couldn’t agree more, as a teenager I spent my summer holidays at Cobo (25-30 years ago the sun always shone!) and it was a fantastic beach. Sadly it isn’t any more. A few years ago I phoned Radio Guernsey and extended an on-air invite to Bernie Flouquet to go for a swim with his family at various local beaches with poor levels of pollution, funnily enough he never took up the offer.
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@Phil
Why not try extending the invitation again, and whilst you are at it, give his environmentally aware side kick Scott Ogier a call as well. They are listed at the front of the directory.
We are seriously considering, in lack of a response to our concerns, contacting some of the people we know who make their living along the Cobo coast line.
Apart from two lady visitors, who enjoyed a swim in what they now realise are health risk waters, there has been no comment to date from Cobo dwellers. I doubt that this is due to an ostrich mentality; no one in their right mind would stick their heads in that sand. Where do they now go to enjoy a beach day and swim?
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@LEN
Please kindly clarify your comment.
Are you saying that foul water and sewage is still being pumped into Cobo Bay waters? I understood that this long standing problem had been rectified.
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We have to be a bit careful about these tests; if for no other reason that when taken they will be sampled over a only a few areas and one wash of a tide can change the figures dramatically. But, I guess, that goes either way.
I’m comfortable that Guernsey beaches, give or take the odd broken cess pit or dodgy field run off, idiot nappy burier, dog owner or Rockmount bottle smasher are as pristine as they can be.
The water’s about 13 degrees at the moment and getting warmer every week. Here’s to a great Guernsey Summer
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@Neil
Appreciate your positive post, however;
Many of us are not at all happy, about Cobo in particular.
Rising water temps just say to us that all things festering and gathering are having a wonderful pus fest.
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